Archiving and consolidation

An unfortunate by-product of using the Archiving system is inability to later consolidate forums (or sub-forums).

Basically I want to merge some of older hardly used sub-forums into one (parent) forum. Under normal forum operation this works fine and you are asked which forum you want to move topics into.

But if you have archiving turned on and have archived topics in that forum it will not allow you delete or (or move?) topics.

Seems like it somewhat defeats some of the purpose of archiving.

Hopefully there might be a solution or work-around in the future (other than un-archiving - make the changes - then re-archive everything again).

Thanks!